CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

15/10 ACROSS

1. Light producer for a sporting contest (5)

4. Being frenzied for losing heart with a caper (7)

8. Man at altar will tie up head of gunboat in retreat (5)

9. What slighted person takes, unfeeling, topless with fury (7)

10. Lay product, for instance, on August 3rd (3)

11. How one put it into words and sent it as fast as possible (9)

12. At home? Near to a position within (4)

13. Award, having lost its head, has a hurt look (4)

18. Cauchemar is what gets ridden after dark (9)

20. Tree growing like beginning of hedgerow (3)

21. Concerned with poet’s output, or just the opposite? (7)

22. Precious hiding-place a number long for (5)

23. Gather one will have right enheartening on the street (7)

24. Earth thrown up to dig around in re-positioning (5)

DOWN

1. Where a compass is concerned, it’s straight up (8,5)

2. Was under the impression in spite of beginning-of-term (7)

3. London soccer player to stop dealing on the Stock Exchange? (6)

4. Dowdy people take fruit without it to the pharmacist (6)

5. You’ll see me having leeches applied wasn’t in a hurry! (5)

6. Personal luggage one gets through artifice (5)

7. Gorge-ous milk product? (7,6)

14. Happened to enter the Diplomatic Corps as he can, somehow (7)

15. Look fixedly around five but deny one any nourishment (6)

16. Gasp at having reentered dam, maybe (6)

17. Cloth dealer puts in appearance in Summer? Certainly! (6)

19. He makes a present of the little Greek I’ve entered (5)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION Across:

Down: